The Globalist

Worried about social media helping to create popular movements, China runs an elaborate system of censorship and manipulation.

Under Xi Jinping, will China opt for a “new totalitarianism,” the current “hard authoritarianism,” turn back to a sort of “soft authoritarianism” or move toward a “semi-democracy”?

China now imports a majority of the world’s annual waste plastic.

Is a world of approximately equal country incomes really possible to envisage any time soon?

For all of China’s active global summitry, the most complex diplomatic exercise is entirely domestic – the CCP’s Party Congress, held every five years.

At home and abroad, China dominates wind energy production.

The U.S. abandoning the Iran nuclear deal is the height of folly. It aligns Iran with China, and away from Europe.

Can the EU replace the United States, as China starts dominating the globe?

As wine cultivation declines elsewhere, China is climbing toward the top.

A recent dispute between the two regional powers highlights the risk to smaller neighbors between them.